Security advisory

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  "id": "af41f63a570e517589d508e610b5dc74677b0acddec5fe05c651c1030d1b008b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16116",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-16116",
    "summary": "The string module is a module that provides extra string operations. The string module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-16116",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-16116",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-16116",
        "GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "21eb9f67a545d9320558b20876b1551e9f38e52f"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:string_project:string:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.2.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.3.3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.3.3",
            "3.3.2",
            "3.3.1",
            "3.3.0",
            "3.2.1",
            "3.2.0",
            "3.1.3",
            "3.1.2",
            "3.1.1",
            "3.1.0",
            "3.0.1",
            "3.0.0",
            "2.2.0",
            "2.1.0",
            "2.0.1",
            "2.0.0",
            "1.9.1",
            "1.9.0",
            "1.8.1",
            "1.8.0",
            "1.7.0",
            "1.6.1",
            "v1.6.0",
            "v1.5.1",
            "1.5.0",
            "v1.4.0",
            "v1.3.1",
            "v1.3.0",
            "v1.2.1",
            "v1.2.0",
            "v1.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16116.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:16.297111639Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/536",
        "https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js/issues/212"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:string_project:string:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "string_project:string",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "last_affected": "0.2.1"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-16116",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380224,
  "published_at": "2018-06-07T02:29:02.863+00:00"
}